Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.